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How much power will a 5G base station use in 2025?

The Small Cell Forum predicts the installed base of small cells to reach 70.2 million in 2025 and the total installed base of 5G or multimode small cells in 2025 to be 13.1 million. “A 5G base station is generally expected to consume roughly three times as much power as a 4G base station.

How does 5G affect energy consumption in 2025?

In 2025, the total energy consumption goes up, especially with extensive 5G deployments, as shown in Fig. 7a. When 5G is not deployed, the rise in energy consumption is 18% whereas the data traffic doubles. With full 5G deployment, it increases by 81% without SM and only by 27% with SM, while the total data traffic increases more than threefold.

How much energy will telecommunications consume by 2025?

When base stations, data centers and devices are added together, telecommunications will consume more than 20% of the world’s electricity by 2025, says Huawei analyst Dr. Anders Andrae. Currently, it is about 11% (8). Numerous reports (9) describe the exponentially increasing energy consumption of 5G and Internet of Things applications.

How much power does a 5G base station consume?

That’s almost a threefold increase compared to 4G (5). One 5G base station is estimated to consume about as much power as 73 households (6), and 3x as much as the previous generation of base stations (5), (7).

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